wag

[Beverly Flanigan]

I forgot to mention the negative "nary," as in "nary a one."  In general
use yet?

Isn't "any" in AppEng "ary"?  Or are both "air" and "ary" used?  Native
speakers??

At 02:30 AM 11/18/2004, you wrote:
>MW3 shows this "wag" (v.t. [1b]) = "dialect: to carry or haul with
>difficulty : LUG <wag groceries home in a cart> <a small child ...
>compelled to wag her baby brother around with her -- Theodore Garrison>".
>
>Manly Wade Wellman, _The Lost and the Lurking_ (1981), p. 72: <<"... You
>just let me wag your stuff back here. ....">>. Speaker is a black man in
>the boonies of the eastern Appalachians, I reckon maybe in NC. [Wellman's
>fiction set in Appalachia is full of such things: "air" for "any", never
>"might" but always "might could", etc., etc.]
>
>-- Doug Wilson